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John Maguire: Media Spectacle and America’s Withered Circle of Empathy

Boston Bombing VS West Explosion: A Nation Conflicted Adam Kokesh, Iraq War Veteran and host of Adam vs. The Man, presents a much needed critique of the American “Citizenry” and our emotional/intellectual response to Media-Spectacle. While the Boston Bombings were certainly a tragic/shocking event, why was no attention paid to the West Texas Fertilizer Plant …

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John Maguire: Local Empowerment Through Legal Education

Thomas Linzey is the Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). CELDF, as some of you might know from John Steiner’s recent posting, is committed to limiting/abolishing the entrenchment of corporate-personhood and reestablishing the rights/resilience of small communities through legal education and local ordinance initiatives. All too often in the current political …

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John Maguire: Web 2.0 and the Distracted Modern

Nicholas Carr, futurist and author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, has provided a tremendous amount of insight into how/why technology, and the Internet specifically, shapes both our behaviors and neurophysiology. According to Carr while the Web is unarguably a tremendous asset, it has also re-wired our neural pathways via neuro-plasticity. Due to the design of …

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John Maguire: SEED-Scale and Establishing Local Resilience

SEED-Scale (Self-Evaluation for Effective Decision-making) is a methodology for community-organizing and resilience-building pioneered by the NGO Future Generations. SEED-Scale is a powerful and attractive alternative in an environment presently dominated by the over-professionalized and foundation-funded 501(c)3 Model. Unlike the 501(c)3, SEED-Scale approaches community-organizing from a much different perspective. In many ways it recaptures the spirit of grassroots movements such as …

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John Maguire: UFO Movie Screens on 22 April — Both Controversial and Eye Opening

Doctor Steven Greer has been on the front-lines of the UFO-Disclosure and Free-Energy Movement for over a decade. Greer is the founder of the vaunted Disclosure Project that interviewed/documented over 200 former military personnel about their experiences with UFOs, ETs, and Exotic Technologies under oath/signed affidavit. Later this month Greer and his team will be releasing Sirius, a crowd-funded documentary …

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John Maguire: Jaron Lanier on How to Not Create a New Cyber Plutocracy

Jaron Lanier, one of the Founding Fathers of Virtual Reality and outspoken critic of Web 2.0, gives a presentation at Personal Democracy Forum 2012 in NYC on Cyber-Plutocracy. Lanier portrays Web 2.0 as a polarized-space where the Monopolization of Data/Network-Based Wealth co-exist side-by-side with the Open-Communities egalitarian drive for establishing Open-Information/Networking/Abundance. While Lanier views ‘Open’ …

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John Maguire: Dealing with Dirty Electricity

“Kevin Byrne discusses dirty electricity, electromagnetic fields, its adverse effects to our health and ways to mitigate the danger.” EM-Filters endorsed/used by Dr. Sam Milham and others: http://www.stetzerelectric.com/ Dr. Milham’s site includes a plethora of source material on DE: http://www.sammilham.com/